The Hindu Editorial VOCAB 9 April 2021 (Improve Your Vocabulary)
Vitiate (Verb) – दूषित करना
- Meaning: spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of.
- अर्थ: की गुणवत्ता या दक्षता को खराब या ख़राब करना।
- Synonym: poison, spoil, stain, tarnish, touch, taint
- Antonym: Clean, honor, purify
- Usage: When peers and bullies apply pressure, it can vitiate the moral character of young people and lead them down the wrong path.
Accolade (Noun) – सम्मान
- Meaning: an award or privilege granted as a special honor or as an acknowledgment of merit.
- अर्थ: एक सम्मान या विशेषाधिकार विशेष सम्मान के रूप में या योग्यता की स्वीकृति के रूप में दिया जाता है।
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- Synonym: honor, recognition, privilege, award, gift, title
- Usage: Mrs. Smith is such a great teacher that she is always getting one accolade after another.
Vernacular (Noun) – जनभाषा
- Meaning: the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people of a country or region.
- अर्थ: किसी देश या क्षेत्र के सामान्य लोगों द्वारा बोली जाने वाली भाषा या बोली।
- Synonym: everyday language, spoken language, colloquial speech, slang
- Usage: To hold the interest of the community, the playwright penned his play using only the local vernacular.
Valedictory (Noun) – विदाई
- Meaning: a farewell address.
- अर्थ: एक विदाई का पता।
- Synonym: farewell, goodbye, leaving, parting, departing, going away, last, final
- Usage: On the last day of school, seniors wrote a valedictory stating what they would miss about high school and read it in front of the class for their final grade.
Interdict (Noun) – पाबंदी
- Meaning: an authoritative prohibition, in particular
- अर्थ: एक आधिकारिक निषेध, विशेष रूप से
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- Synonym: prohibition, ban, bar, veto, proscription,
- Antonym: corroborate, support
- Usage: Because I failed most of my classes last term, my parents will probably interdict me from working this semester.
Perjury (Noun) – झूठा साक्ष्य
- Meaning: the offense of willfully telling an untruth or making a misrepresentation under oath.
- अर्थ: शपथ के तहत जानबूझकर असत्य बताने या गलत बयानी करने का अपराध।
- Synonym: violation of an oath, giving false evidence/testimony, bearing false witness/testimony, forswearing oneself, making false statements, willful falsehood
- Usage: The mother who lied about her son’s whereabouts will soon face trial for perjury.
INEXORABLE (Adjective) : निष्ठुर
- Meaning: impossible to stop or prevent.
- अर्थ: रोकना या रोकना असंभव है।
- Synonyms: relentless, unstoppable, unavoidable, inescapable
- Antonyms: kind, merciful, sympathetic
- Example: The inexorable truth is that Shelley is going to die within six months because she has cancer.
PECULIAR (Adjective) : अनोखा
- Meaning: different to what is normal or expected; strange.
- अर्थ: जो सामान्य या अपेक्षित है उससे भिन्न; अजीब।
- Synonyms: strange, unusual, curious, abnormal
- Antonyms: common, general, indefinite, ordinary
- Example: My uncle is a peculiar man who wears the same outfit several days a week.
EXTOL (Verb) : प्रशंसा करना
- Meaning: praise enthusiastically.
- अर्थ: उत्साहपूर्वक प्रशंसा करना।
- Synonyms: eulogize, acclaim
- Antonyms: criticize
- Example: I got angry when my mother would extol my brother’s accomplishments and ignore all the good things I did.
PROTRACTED (adjective) फैला हुआ
- Meaning: lasting for a long time or longer than expected or usual.
- अर्थ: लंबे समय तक या अपेक्षा से अधिक समय तक या सामान्य रूप से स्थायी।
- Synonyms: expanded, lasting, prolonged, sustained.
- Antonyms: abbreviated, abridged, curtailed, shortened.
- Usage: Three years of long and protracted negotiations characterized the proposals for an indoor-events arena.
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